Unashamedly Desperate Quotes

#1. I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

Felix Baumgartner

#2. It was the first genuinely shining day of summer, a time of year which brought Eleanor always to aching memories of her early childhood, when it seemed to be summer all the time; she could not remember a winter before father's death on a cold wet day.

Shirley Jackson

#3. Even in the most beautiful music there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence.

Andrea Bocelli

#4. save our emotional responses for real life.

Ted Chiang

#5. I merely declare my independence. I merely claim my choice of all the tools in the universe; and I shall not admit that any of them are blunted merely because they have been used.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. Matthias handed over the bag. "What are you looking for?"
"A sedative," said the medik.
"Is that safe for a pregnant woman?"
"For me.

Leigh Bardugo

#7. 'Monday Night Football' has the good and the bad points. The bad point is you have to wait around all day, and it disrupts your schedule for the next week. Now you have one less day to prepare for the following week.

Bud Grant

#8. My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#9. She liked getting hold of some book ... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing her thoughts with any one, or having to decide whether the book was a good one or a bad one.

Virginia Woolf

#10. Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

Sarah Fielding

#11. She suffered much from the adjacent presence of her daughter-in-law, whose misfortune it was to become disagreeable when she was unhappy
perhaps the heaviest curse that can be laid on man, who is born to sorrow.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to."
I closed my eyes and whispered, "I'll meet you halfway.

Ilona Andrews

#13. When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.

Stephen King